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I just ... I can't watch the commercials without wanting to cry, because I still remember that day very, very clearly.
One of the shots in the commercial for the movie is Nic Cage -- I guess he plays a police officer -- in the lobby of a building, looking out the glass of the doors with a completely stunned expression as that first wave of dust/debris/smoke rolled by when the first tower went down.
And all I can think when I see it is, That's not real. And I feel sick in the pit of my stomach.
Well, I won't be going to see it either, just because it's Oliver Stone. However, I don't necessarily think that just because a movie is made soon after an event it should be exploitative. Movies aren't just entertainment. Sometimes they're not even entertainment. Sometimes they're just to teach, or commemorate. I personally think that for these events a documentary might achieve that more tastefully, but I haven't seen the film, so...
I think part of it for me is that I've ODed on those visuals. I liked Three Kings, for instance, and that was very close to its time--and a war movie which normally freaks me out.
The towers? I've seen them fall a hundred times. From many different angles. I watched until I was so sick I couldn't turn away. I saw the people around react--I saw the horror of hundreds if not thousands. I listened to tales of heroism, choked at the tears of survivors.
Oliver Stone has nothing to add.
And it doesn't have Jesus and Mary Mag running off in a yellow sportscar like "Rescue Me". As far as I know.
I saw Little Miss Sunshine today, and it was just great. But here's a thing about people at the movies that makes me nuts: (I assume) Because the movie was billed as a comedy, and because Steve Carrell is known as a comic actor, people started laughing at scenes of him that were NOT AT ALL FUNNY. They were the opposite of funny. And yet? Guffaws from elsewhere in the audience. WTF, people.
I have a theory that laugh tracks running under unfunny "jokes" on TV have messed up many a sense of humor.
I have heard that said, yeah.
Yeah, I can see that. In this case, it was really serious, but I think people were prepared for it to be funny, and just... no.
It's funny, not a laugh-riot.
Did you see it, Erika? I mean in like Carrell's second scene (or so).